We arrived in Austin just in time for Austin’s rush hour traffic, but eventually we reached our destination and were greeted by our dear friend Jerdon Jordaneous Jordanianson AKA cheeetah who was doing well in the desert. That night we met his girlfriend Melissa and their friend Molly. Later Jordan, Melissa and Alan biked up Barton Hill to watch the meteor shower that was going on. At the top with the Austin skyline in the distance the three laid out on a cement table and were witness to the best show any of them could have expected…meteors of every kind, fast ones, slow moving ones, some far away, some incredibly close ones with red burning balls of fire with long glittering sparkling tails spanning halfway across your visual field. Sound like a good meteor shower? because it was a good one.
Jordan lives in the apartment building he manages on a great stretch of Guadalupe St. close to the sweet-ass food co-op
Wheatsville, where Molly works. Everything is right close to Jordan's--just down the street is
Amy's Ice Creams. It’s nice to know Amy’s is a chain because that means there are more of these shining beacons of ice cream excellence out there for the world to love.
Alan had to choose between many different coffee and beer/liquor mixture flavors and then combined that with apple pie flavor and you could say he was dancing on a spoon in the high gardens of ice cream paradise. During our three day stay we visited
Barton Springs, a natural spring-fed public pool, once at night and once during the day.
It's as if you’re at a public swimming pool with a diving board and everything, except it’s bigger and less linear, with fish. A few nights earlier in Princton or Floyd, Alan had dreamt of jumping off a diving board really really high and doing a flip in the air, so in the name of synchronicity he did a back-flip off the Barton Spring's diving board for the first time in his life, and got it on the second try after an awkward back-flop in front of a large crowd of spectators. We also had a night of art-making with the five of us at Jordan’s. Jordan painted a giant acrylic-on-canvass purple and gold cactus for Alyssa, while Alyssa painted a colorful tribute to her spirit animal. We also found ourselves in
Veggie Heaven, which Google calls "Vegan-friendly, Chinese, Buddhist, Take-out Vegetarian Chinese restaurant." Another adventure was biking to the mind-blowingly enormous and all-encompassing
rock/lapidary shop
Nature’s Treasures where Alyssa bought a beautiful amber and garnet necklace. Alan, not wanting to leave the giant crystal palace empty handed, bought some
2012 crystals (sold by David Geiger Minerals! how crazy is that? just noticed that now.) The guy at the rock store gave us each a smoky moonstone meant for travelers. Afterwords we met up with Jordan and Melissa at
Casa de Luz, a yummy macrobioic restaurant/Center for Integral Studies. We got to spend a good amount of time with Jordan, who we hadn't seen in a while. Austin is a beautiful city with a young, modern feel, creative and progessive food options, a killer music scene, pretty bike friendly, and everyone we met we liked. On our way out we stopped by Wheatsville and Molly totally hooked us up for the ride, cause she rocks like that. I’m talking about with food of course...
We arrived in Austin just in time for Austin’s rush hour traffic, but eventually we reached our destination and were greeted by our dear friend Jerdon Jordaneous Jordanianson AKA cheeetah who was doing well in the desert. That night we met his girlfriend Melissa and their friend Molly. Later Jordan, Melissa and Alan biked up Barton Hill to watch the meteor shower that was going on. At the top with the Austin skyline in the distance the three laid out on a cement table and were witness to the best show any of them could have expected…meteors of every kind, fast ones, slow moving ones, some far away, some incredibly close ones with red burning balls of fire with long glittering sparkling tails spanning halfway across your visual field. Sound like a good meteor shower? because it was a good one. 
Jordan lives in the apartment building he manages on a great stretch of Guadalupe St. close to the sweet-ass food co-op Wheatsville, where Molly works. Everything is right close to Jordan's--just down the street is Amy's Ice Creams. It’s nice to know Amy’s is a chain because that means there are more of these shining beacons of ice cream excellence out there for the world to love. 
Alan had to choose between many different coffee and beer/liquor mixture flavors and then combined that with apple pie flavor and you could say he was dancing on a spoon in the high gardens of ice cream paradise. During our three day stay we visited Barton Springs, a natural spring-fed public pool, once at night and once during the day. 
It's as if you’re at a public swimming pool with a diving board and everything, except it’s bigger and less linear, with fish. A few nights earlier in Princton or Floyd, Alan had dreamt of jumping off a diving board really really high and doing a flip in the air, so in the name of synchronicity he did a back-flip off the Barton Spring's diving board for the first time in his life, and got it on the second try after an awkward back-flop in front of a large crowd of spectators. We also had a night of art-making with the five of us at Jordan’s. Jordan painted a giant acrylic-on-canvass purple and gold cactus for Alyssa, while Alyssa painted a colorful tribute to her spirit animal. We also found ourselves in Veggie Heaven, which Google calls "Vegan-friendly, Chinese, Buddhist, Take-out Vegetarian Chinese restaurant." Another adventure was biking to the mind-blowingly enormous and all-encompassing 
rock/lapidary shop Nature’s Treasures where Alyssa bought a beautiful amber and garnet necklace. Alan, not wanting to leave the giant crystal palace empty handed, bought some 2012 crystals (sold by David Geiger Minerals! how crazy is that? just noticed that now.) The guy at the rock store gave us each a smoky moonstone meant for travelers. Afterwords we met up with Jordan and Melissa at Casa de Luz, a yummy macrobioic restaurant/Center for Integral Studies. We got to spend a good amount of time with Jordan, who we hadn't seen in a while. Austin is a beautiful city with a young, modern feel, creative and progessive food options, a killer music scene, pretty bike friendly, and everyone we met we liked. On our way out we stopped by Wheatsville and Molly totally hooked us up for the ride, cause she rocks like that. I’m talking about with food of course...
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